ElephantS!! The Second Part [Closing: 15th May, 6.30pm]

Necro

Elephant is a sheep game where the start of the next word must begin with the end letter of the word before.



Like a line of elephants walking along holding each other, trunk to tail. The Elephants get upset if their tails are not being held.

e.g.

elephanT
TigeR
RhinO
OctopuS
Seal


Simple enough, but it can end up being a total train wreck. Once you step off the path, getting back on again can be a mind****.... not that there is any set path

Connect the tails for these set of questions


*Thanks to Rikand for the intro *


1. A European country
2. A breed of cattle
3. An English Premier League team
4. A TV show
5. A Covid-19 Vaccine
6. A snooker ball colour
7. A 90s song
8. A capital city
9. A Stephen King novel
10. A game played on Forum Games



Sign Ups open till the 14th May anyways, aiming to run the reveal that weekend sometime depending on other games in the forum.....

Mam of 4

Love elephants , great pic btw , will be in !
(As soon as I actually read the questions!)

nothing

Oooooh this looks awesome and tricky! I'll definitely be in

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

2. A breed of cattle

Where's Green&Red when you need him? :pac:

Purple Mountain

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Where's Green&Red when you need him? :pac:

That's too bloody cute
So how does one "win" this game?

Necro

Purple Mountain wrote: »

That's too bloody cute
So how does one "win" this game?

Sheep is a game where you try to pick the most popular answer for a question, so that still applies here.

Difference is in Elephant your answer to each question has to start with the last letter of your previous answer

ari101

With some shoehorning, I am in! :pac:

Neowise

getting from 5 to 6 is proving tricky, i might have to make up a vaccine.

Neowise

Neowise wrote: »

getting from 5 to 6 is proving tricky, i might have to make up a vaccine.

This wikipedia page helped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine

HeidiHeidi

Hurray!!

I loved the last one of these - even though it completely melted my head!

Will get straight on it!!

Purgative

ari101 wrote: »

With some shoehorning, I am in! :pac:

Me too but wow, my answers are so bad I shuddered a bit when I clicked send.

beakerjoe

Great, now I have to review different cattle breeds. I know zero

Declan A Walsh

The winning entry has just been submitted!

Purple Mountain

This is really tough...

I likes it

Necro

beakerjoe wrote: »

Great, now I have to review different cattle breeds. I know zero

I like to think of it as an educational question :pac:

ari101

Purgative wrote: »

Me too but wow, my answers are so bad I shuddered a bit when I clicked send.

Yup sheep are unlikely unless (even if) many end up in the same tunnel vision path

ari101

Necro wrote: »

I like to think of it as an educational question :pac:

Haha, farm stuff I'd somewhat forgotten now remembered

Google is great :pac:

davetherave

Jesus I've just had to give up on my third list trying to make this poxy thing work. Necro is off the christmas card list with their stupid totally fun game ideas. Honestly, 200 recognised breeds of cow in a list from the the British Cattle Tracing System and not one of them ends in a letter I need it to end with.

Necro

Who knew cattle would be the cause of my excommunication from Forum Games

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Sign Ups open till the 14th May anyways...

OK, I have a chain!

There's a couple of answers that are really shoehorned in though, so I'm not entering yet and will come back to it later to see if I can improve it

cee_jay

Google is allowed right?

Neowise

cee_jay wrote: »

Google is allowed right?

if it isn't then my submission is 95% cheated.

Necro

cee_jay wrote:

Google is allowed right?

Sure is

the purple tin

I've entered.
I was just about to send my list when it struck me that my 90s song was released in the 80s :mad: grrrr!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

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Neowise

awwh wow, he/shes such a cutie

the purple tin

I missed a question and had to re-do it. :mad: Oh these heffalumps can be infuriating.
There is a question where as far as I can see you can only give one correct answer, that is what nobbled me for ages.

Necs do you come up with your own set of answers while you are working out the questions? It'd be interesting to see what you choose afterwards if so.

davetherave

the purple tin wrote: »

I missed a question and had to re-do it. :mad: Oh these heffalumps can be infuriating.
There is a question where as far as I can see you can only give one correct answer, that is what nobbled me for ages.

Necs do you come up with your own set of answers while you are working out the questions? It'd be interesting to see what you choose afterwards if so.

There's no answers or question numbers in the spoilers below just some comment on the bold.

Yeah, without saying too much I suspect I had the same problem where it appeared to me that two questions had to be specific answers/combination to be a valid tail to trunk Unless I've really scuffed it :0

Necro

the purple tin wrote: »

Necs do you come up with your own set of answers while you are working out the questions? It'd be interesting to see what you choose afterwards if so.

Sometimes, not always. Have I done it here...? Who knows

ari101

davetherave wrote: »

There's no answers or question numbers in the spoilers below just some comment on the bold.

Yeah, without saying too much I suspect I had the same problem where it appeared to me that two questions had to be specific answers/combination to be a valid tail to trunk Unless I've really scuffed it :0

Well this is sheep so there are no wrong answers right? :pac:

I had to use some obscure stuff / versions of things to make it work so I doubt mine will sheep, but I made them all link

I've only been working on this for about 10 minutes but already I just wanna get hold of Necro and like....



Ya know?!?

Necro

That's just the normal feeling with me no :pac:

Necro

Necro wrote: »

That's just the normal feeling with me no :pac:

Well.. you're not wrong!

Declan A Walsh

I hope what happened to me in the last Elephant game does not happen to me here.

It came to a vehicle question and a number of us had to start the word with the letter A. I, like most of us who were starting with the letter A, anticipated that the next question (an animal) should start with the letter E (Elephant was the obvious choice there, although some went for Eagle!). What did I put down but Ambulance, when the obvious answer was Airplane! Only for that answer, I would have been joint winner at the end of that game!

I remember that Declan!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

If people just remember the two main bonus goals you want to hit in a game of Elephant, there's really only one set of answers that works here... There's a science to it...

the purple tin

Necro wrote: »

Sometimes, not always. Have I done it here...? Who knows

You coy...


If you don't give them a dry run yourself, how can you know they are not impossible?

ari101

the purple tin wrote: »

You coy...

If you don't give them a dry run yourself, how can you know they are not impossible?

Because there are no wrong answers in sheep - stick in some obscure gobbledygook along the way, there will be very few sheep and lots of aces, but that's Necro's problem

Purgative

Deleted User wrote: »

I remember that Declan!

Me too, I couldn't sleep that night thinking about it

the purple tin

ari101 wrote: »

Because there are no wrong answers in sheep - stick in some obscure gobbledygook along the way, there will be very few sheep and lots of aces, but that's Necro's problem

Is it the same in Heffalumps? I thought if you gave a wrong answer you got no points or got minus points off your score

Declan A Walsh

the purple tin wrote: »

Is it the same in Heffalumps? I thought if you gave a wrong answer you got no points or got minus points off your score

Maybe I am slow (quite possible!) but what is Heffalumps?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

ari101 wrote: »

Because there are no wrong answers in sheep - stick in some obscure gobbledygook along the way, there will be very few sheep and lots of aces, but that's Necro's problem

There is multiple ways to do it with correct answers though in fairness.

And of course there's one vastly superior and satisfying set of answers, which was the route that I obviously chose to go for, for I am great and only choose great answers... :pac:

ari101

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Maybe I am slow (quite possible!) but what is Heffalumps?

An elephant in Winnie the Pooh :pac:

the purple tin

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Maybe I am slow (quite possible!) but what is Heffalumps?

It's totally cool and trendy street slang for elephants.
Never let it be said that I ain't down with the kids :cool:

the purple tin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPPL1FO5mU

ari101

the purple tin wrote: »

Is it the same in Heffalumps? I thought if you gave a wrong answer you got no points or got minus points off your score

Necro didn't say so I assumed the penalty was just being certain of an ace... in the end mine are obscure or versions rather than plain wrong, but I did consider it

Purgative

Purgative wrote: »

Me too, I couldn't sleep that night thinking about it

Someone should have called a waambulance

HeidiHeidi

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

There is multiple ways to do it with correct answers though in fairness.

And of course there's one vastly superior and satisfying set of answers, which was the route that I obviously chose to go for, for I am great and only choose great answers... :pac:

I'll eat my hat if there aren't only single answers to one or two of these - where you go before and after that is open to debate though!


I do NOT recommend trying to do this at 2am, by the way, the brain fog was off the scale

Also Starring LeVar Burton

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'll eat my hat if there aren't only single answers to one or two of these - where you go before and after that is open to debate though!


I do NOT recommend trying to do this at 2am, by the way, the brain fog was off the scale

I DO recommend doing it at 2am. The stars all aligned at that hour and it only took me a few minutes...

ari101

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I DO recommend doing it at 2am. The stars all aligned at that hour and it only took me a few minutes...

Which reminds me, I've the wine chilling and a attempt at a walrus in my plans

Declan A Walsh

the purple tin wrote: »

Is it the same in Heffalumps? I thought if you gave a wrong answer you got no points or got minus points off your score

ari101 wrote: »

Necro didn't say so I assumed the penalty was just being certain of an ace... in the end mine are obscure or versions rather than plain wrong, but I did consider it

I had a quick glance at the previous Elephant and no-one messed up on carrying over letters between each question. Hopefully, it will be the same for this game. But, if someone were to mess up on their letters, surely that is wrong so maybe they should get zero?